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Information Quotes
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
108
"With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable."
45
"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."
41
"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."
28
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
25
"I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information."
19
"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
19
"Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses."
15
"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."
15
"I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there."
14
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
14
"To live effectively is to live with adequate information."
13
"Information about the package is as important as the package itself."
12
"Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program."
12
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
11
"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
11
"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
11
"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information."
11
"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."
11
"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
11
"We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem."
11
"Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything."
11
"In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today."
11
"Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo."
11
"But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?"
11
"Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information."
10
"The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other."
10
"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
10
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
10
"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."
10
"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."
9
"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."
9
"Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota."
9
"If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources."
9
"Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties."
9
"I found out that you could audition by sending a picture of yourself and some information to Newsround."
9
"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."
9
"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."
9
"This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped."
9
"The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg."
9
"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."
9
"Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate."
9
"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."
9
"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."
9
"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."
8
"You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer."
8
"Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5."
8
"Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored."
8
"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."
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